Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association
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The care of pregnant women with disorders of glucose metabolism is a satisfying part of diabetes care but outcomes remain less than ideal. The evidence base to improve care has grown over subsequent decades and clinicians will welcome up-to-date NICE guidance on this topic. This review looks at the guidance from the perspective of a secondary care diabetes team.
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To determine the utility of finger-prick point-of-care testing (POCT) of blood glucose for the detection of dysglycaemia. ⋯ POCT significantly underestimated the true blood glucose at diagnostic levels for diabetes. POCT cannot be recommended as a means of screening for or diagnosing diabetes or pre-diabetes.